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Yes, you would know it if there had been a battle.

Yea,but there was no battle......

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How far into the mine did you go? I don't think there is a hole in the first mine sector. The first sector exits at the edge of the screen (the pentagonal exit cursor). It's probably the 2nd sector that will have a hole (with a rectangular exit cursor).

If they are in Grumm, you may have experienced the bug which causes them not to be in the mine when you enter it. The fix for that is to exit the mine, save your game, exit the game entirely, restart the game, reload your save, and re-enter the mine. At that point, you should encounter crepitus in the first sector if they are supposed to be there.

H4 Grumm Mine sublevel 2.The last mine level before entering Creatures Lair.I know it very well 'cause my previous bug quests were in Grumm.

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Whenever I have killed the crepitus below Tixa, I have gotten the cutscene where Deidranna tells Elliot to stop feeding bodies to the creatures fairly soon afterward.

No cutscene for me.

Normally I take Drassen, Drassen SAM, Cambria, Cambria SAM, Chitzena, Chitzena SAM, Then either Grumm or Alma. And the Queen release the creatures.

I skip Bob in the hospital, the queen dialogue and Tixa if i feel like not going in it.

If you go in Tixa after killing the queen bug, then there are no bugs in there anymore.

There is also Gabe(the guy who sells antibug elixir) and Ratt(a guy that appears in cambria commercial area when the bugs are released) that i skip completelly.

The bugs thenselves are not in the mines every night, i have to wait a nocturnal attack then enter the mine, and see if there is anyone there, if not then i just keep time compressing untill they attack me again and are in the mines.

Never ever had any problems with delay to get the quest, even after some heavy delayed games with only IMP merc in the field.